This work is articulated through the myth of Calafia, a myth that represents bravery and spiritual strength, while manifesting itself as act of endurance in our time. These allow the intertwining of different historical, powerful, and meaningful events in the American region, such as the bear flag revolt −one of the most important cross-cultural political experiences between Mexico and the United States− as well as the Californian gold rush, one of the largest mass migrations seeking wellbeing in the history of the United States.
This chair −that may be looked at with strangeness− not only functions as an imposed aesthetic element, it also works, due to these series of factors, as an interrogative object that keeps in some way that memory −thinking that a significant part from what I do in their redesign, provokes an object’s memory.
Artifact, which, in seeking a broadened understanding of our mythical, economic, political, and cultural bonds to this region, allows me to re-articulate −neither visually nor literally− a historical memory that is directly related the promise of a terrestrial paradise, mythology, spirit and the constructing of the California state’s identity, where now in this continuum anything is completely assured.
